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Originally Posted by Vader

That's what he said. It isn't about the depth chart because Bob was answering a question about not getting Wheaton on the field. He said the reason Wheaton wasn't on the field was because Tomlin decides the player groups and Haley calls the plays.

Tomlin may decide player groups when game planning but during the game? No.. don't believe it at all.

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Originally Posted by steelz09

That's not the point. The point is, he played above average for us. Starks wasn't the problem. He could step in and be a better LT than Adams immediately. Adams could move to RT and perform better than Gilbert immediately. That improves 2 positions almost instantly and it could have been done cheaply. Instead, Tomlin is continuing his grudge on Starks and it's hurting this team and likewise, hurtining his chances of being back in Pittsburgh for the 2014 season.

By the way, you do realize that Starks is only 31 years old? How is that "done"? lol.

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Originally Posted by SanAntonioSteelerFan

And Gilbert said:

I don't know a lot about blocking, but you guys that are getting on Haley for not calling any plays using it - it sounds like we ran some before Pouncey went down (?) - are you saying Haley has to go because he didn't call zone blocking plays AFTER that? I'm wondering if maybe we held off because we didn't have a center who knew our scheme when he went down ...?

Our Backup RT was supposed to KNOW all the calls that Pouncey would make! <SARCASM>
it blows my mind how these guys are still whining.

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Originally Posted by papillon

Unfortunately, I don't believe it was a lack of attentiveness, I believe it was an insistence that he (Haley) runs this offense and not Ben. So, rather than let Ben get the team to the LOS and run a play, Haley waved it off and sent his personnel package onto the field, and, as we know now, this extra time gave Marvin Lewis the time to challenge the play.

Arrogance and ego are Haley's forte.

Pappy

If so, that's even worse. Its a really bad error and if caused by ego, those things will likely continue to happen.

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